I'm using the term duality by definition, that which is twofold, to describe the theosophical and philosophical ideas contrasting oneness against separatedness.jonmartensen wrote:What you seem to be thinking of is plurality ed. More than one reality physically and then the intangible ideas.
Dualism is more generally the idea that that which is "real" (discovering just what real means can probably be an entire philosophy major) is the physical world (the tangible) and the mental world (Ideas/Forms).
Monism (singularity) is the idea that only the tangible is real, or the tangible is only a perception of the mind and only Ideas/Forms are real.
Or something like that